Shannon Hale is an American author and writes mostly in young adult fantasy and adult fiction, including the Newbery Honor book Princess Academy, the Books of Bayern series, two adult novels, and two graphic novels that she co-wrote with her husband.
Hale first published book, The Goose Girl, met with numerous rejections until it was finally published in 2003.[2] In 2004 her second novel, Enna Burning, which follows Enna, a minor character from The Goose Girl, was published. The third installment in the Bayern series, River Secrets, was released in September 2006. By then Hale had earned numerous awards for her 2005 release, Princess Academy, including the prestigious Newbery Honor. A sequel to Princess Academy came out in 2012, called Palace of Stone.
She has published three adult novels, Austenland, The Actor and the Housewife and Midnight in Austenland (a sequel to Austenland). A young adult fantasy novel and the fourth book in the Books of Bayern series, Forest Born, came out in 2009. Alongside her artist husband Dean Hale have also published a graphic novel, Rapunzel's Revenge. A sequel, entitled Calamity Jack, was published in 2010.
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